disclaimer: disclaimed.
notes:
no capitalization, as always. for jenny (WIZARDOLOGY) because her birfday was yesterday and i luuuuuuurrrve her. unfortunately, i couldn't make this a happy piece. i hope you like it anyways, dear! very experimental and very weird and yeah. the ending still feels sketchy. i haven't written anything in forever. sorry about that if you care.
summary: on the contrary, i don't think i have a single thing figured out. / scorpius&rose, forever star-crossed; for jenny.


to fall

ϟ


her name fits her perfectly, you think. beautiful, but covered with thorns to fight off the unwanted. (like you.)

/

something about her - her, with her muggle headphones blasting some music that you can only hear the whispers of; her, with her coal-black dyed hair; her, with her witty, insulting comments - fascinates you. maybe it's because she's different.
(maybe it's because she's something that you could never have.)

/

you watch as she falls down. down, down, down into her own sort of hell that she's created for herself. you don't know why she does it. (but then again, no one does.) you just know that you wish you could stop it. (but then again, everyone does.)

/

you think you've got it all figured out, the charms professor says one day after she answers a question, not getting it anywhere near correct. don't you, rose? think you'll find someway to live, something to live off of even though your grades plummeted. think you can get by with the fact that your parents helped save the wizarding world. he pauses. you're wrong, you know. you're just going to keep being in this slump -

you stop listening, but everyone else listens with astonishment as the professor tells her that she won't amount to anything. after a few minutes, rose replies with:

on the contrary, i don't think i have a single thing figured out, professor.

she has to stay after class that day.

/

why are you even here, scorpius? rose asks you bitterly as she takes a drag. why do you even talk to me, hm?

all you did was sit down next her, said hello. you shrug.

why not?

because i don't want you to, she answers swiftly.

then leave.

she does. you watch as she goes. (what you wished you said - because i think i'm in love with you.)

/

as she falls, you fall with her, trying to get to the bottom before her so that you can catch her. (maybe - maybe - maybe -
maybe you will.)


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